European Landscape Architecture Practice 2000

abstract
But, what are these learning of the Odyssey?
1. Those Greeks already knew, 800 years before Christ, that the supreme pleasure
was in the Garden, but in a very freshly green, exuberant paradise Garden,
absolutely related to the Gods’ Residences.
2. Those Greeks also knew very perfectly the good relationship between animals
and Nature; even envying such an harmonic relation.
3. Those Greeks also knew very perfectly that they were very unprotected,
feeling themselves quite uneasy, being in the middle of the Gods’ immortality,
in one side, and the happy life of the animals in the other.
4. Those Greeks also knew very perfectly the anxiousness that such situation
was causing them.
5. Those Greeks also knew very perfectly that they were constantly tempted to
leave their anxious feelings by changing into the animality condition (Circe)
or the Godity one (Calypso).
6. Those Greeks also knew very perfectly that life relies on overtaking both
temptations and once that good relation between Man and Nature was
achieved, Gods and animals would surely envy us.
The Finding
And they found it some years later, when Fedro encouraged Socrates to go to
the very riverside of the Ilissos. From that moment on the Garden was not anymore
an aspiration that only Gods had in the Island where some of them lived.
And then this Garden began its travel along the North Mediterranean coast up to
getting Spain, originating the already above said Spanish Nazari Garden: the
supreme Garden; absolutely earthly paradise.
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